Links
Here you'll find a list of useful links to other organisations. To learn more about the Institution of Mechanical Engineers, visit their website.
Advice Guide
An excellent advice and information site, provided and updated by CAB.
Age Concern/Help the Aged
Advice and extensive range of fact sheets on subjects relating to the elderly.
Aidis Trust
Provides specialised computer equipment to people with disabilities.
Alzheimers Society
Advice and support to those dealing with dementia.
Business Debtline
Free telephone debt counselling for self-employed people and small businesses.
Citizens Advice Bureau, National Association of (NACAB)
You will find one in most towns. CABx give free, practical, up-to-date advice.
Consumer Credit Counselling Service
Registered charity. Free and confidential service, providing counselling to help achieve realistic solutions to debt problems, avoid bankruptcy and learn to handle money.
Counsel and Care
Provides an advice service on care at home, residential care and nursing homes, community care and financial help.
Department for Work and Pensions (formally the DSS)
Directgov
Details of government agencies and links to other sources of information.
Disabled Living Foundation
Information on equipment and technology to increase disabled people's independence.
Elderly Accommodation Counsel
The EAC is a charity, providing a free service to help older people make their own choices about where they live, and any care or support services they need.
Employment Opportunities for People with Disabilities
Employment service for job seekers & employers. Good first point of contact, can offer advice to people who have become newly disabled.
Kingshill Research
Information resource for dementia sufferers and their carers.
Leonard Cheshire
Charity provider of services for disabled people.
Motability
Charity helping people receiving the mobility component of DLA to purchase/hire vehicles.
National Debtline
Free, confidential advice to help resolve debt problems.
Office of Fair Trading
Promotes and protects consumers' interests.
Payplan
Confidential counselling to achieve realistic solutions to debt problems.
Pension Service
DWP provides information on the State Pension through the Pension Service.
Red Cross (British Society)
National limited equipment Loan, escort and transport services.
Rethink
Aims to improve the lives of everyone affected by severe mental illness.
RightsNet
The welfare rights website for advice workers.
Royal National Institute for the Blind (RNIB)
Provides advice, assistance and information on benefits, equipment, employment and support.
Royal National Institute for the Deaf (RNID)
RNID is the largest charity representing the nine million deaf and hard of hearing people in the UK.
Scope
Charity working with people with cerebral palsy.
Skill (National Bureau for Students with Disabilities)
Skill promotes opportunities for young people and adults with any kind of disability in post -16 education, training and employment across the UK.
Stair lifts Prices
An independent website with information about different types of stair lifts and their relative merits, with further links to sites of stair lift providers.
Thrive
National horticultural charity that exists to enable disadvantaged, disabled and older people to participate fully in the social and economic life of the community.
Warm Front Scheme
Grants to help pay for heating and insulation for people on income or disability related benefits.
A Company Limited by Guarantee (Company No.130981)
Registered Office: 3 Birdcage Walk, London SW1H 9JJ
Registered Charity No. 209465